[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 92 points 1 month ago

Daniel Radcliffe used this to his advantage---same outfit, and the paparazzi stopped bothering him:

It was three or four months. Because I was doing a play in London and every night there was paparazzi outside. And I suddenly realized after like after I just had just been lazy and not changed my clothes for a few days, that they were not there. And I realized it’s probably because I’m wearing the same thing so it all looks like photos from the same day. So I was like ‘I’ll just continue wearing this.’ And they never came back because it all looks like the same picture in front of the same door.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 90 points 2 months ago

There's a joke about whitespace here somewhere, I just know it.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 71 points 7 months ago

People praise the female reproductive system as miraculous because it can make a baby in only 9 months. Like that's neat and all, but my reproductive system can make a baby in approximately 13 seconds, so I don't see what all the fuss is about.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 91 points 8 months ago

Look, if you don't want to listen to some random dude who thinks reading is cool, fair enough. But if that random dude also runs level three diagnostics on the warp core and can swap polarity on the main deflector dish with one hand tied behind his back? Yeah...you should probably pay attention.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 71 points 11 months ago

Baking is chemistry, cooking is jazz.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 78 points 1 year ago

It's a matter of perspective and use


high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

I'd much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 73 points 1 year ago

Guy buying condoms? He's hoping to get some.

Guy buying tampons? He's definitely getting some.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 79 points 1 year ago

How about we give parents one extra vote per child.

But they have to wait 18 years to use it.

And they can't directly use it, it's more that they get a delegate of sorts.

And this delegate


let's call them, I dunno, ~~their kid~~ "offspring voter"


isn't legally bound to vote one way or another.

And how about this person votes in a manner that in some way reflects how they were raised, and their worldy experiences


possibly voting exactly as the parents would, or possibly exactly opposite, or anywhere in between.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 75 points 2 years ago

Having survived grad school and then some without a dishwasher, I will never look at loading/unloading the dishwasher as a chore; it is a privilege to do so (and is always followed by a heartfelt Thank You to that most selfless of appliances).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 77 points 2 years ago

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 70 points 2 years ago

Hilarious to me that it OCRs the text. The text is generated by the computer. It's almost like when Lt. Cmdr. Data wants to get information from the computer database, so he tells the computer to display it and just keeps increasing the speed


there are way more efficient means of getting information from A to B than displaying it, imaging it, and running it though image processing!

I totally get that this is what makes sense, and it's independent of the method/library used for generating text, but still...the computer "knows" what it's displaying (except for images of text), and yet it has to screenshot and read it back.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 86 points 2 years ago

Have a kid...

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